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Knowledge Management

Concept, Access, Creation, Application and Services

Bhim Upadhyaya

bhimupadhyaya@gmail.com

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Knowledge Management

It embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing, capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings.

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10000 yrs 300 yrs 50 yrs 20 yrs

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Technological Knowledge

Progress

Time (Years Ago) Technology Developed

1 lakh Stone tools for hunting.

40 thousand Arms for war and security

800 Clock, Compass & Instruments

100-190 Rail, Road, Electricity, Telecom, Automobiles

50-100 Airplane, Atomic energy, TV, Computers

50 Hence All modern gadgets and equip’t.

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Information, Data, Knowledge,

& Wisdom

• Information is message has receiver and

sender.

• Data is uninterrupted information.

• Knowledge is information which has use

and purpose, and exists in the heads of

people.

• Wisdom is decent culture and behavior

imparted by generations of knowledge.

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Peter Drucker: Knowledge Society

• Borderlessness because the knowledge

travels more effortlessly than money.

• Upward mobility available to everyone

through easily acquired formal

education.

• The potential for failure as well as for

success. Anyone can acquire means of

production i.e. knowledge required for

the job, but not everyone can win.

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KnowledgeCONCEPTS

KNOWLEDGE PENTAGON

ACCESS

CREATION

SERVICESAPPLICATIONS

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Food for Thoughts• If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. (Access) - Margaret Fuller

• Education is not filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.(Concepts) -William B. Keats• Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought. (Creation) - Jonathan Swift

• If you give me rice, I’ll eat today; if you teach me how to grow rice, I’ll eat every day. (Application)

- Mahatma Gandhi

• Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives. (Services) - James Madison

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KNOWLEDGE LIFECYCLE

Birth Infancy Childhood Young Age Work AgePost Work

Age

• Health

• Hygiene

• Nutrition

• Primary

Education

• Health

• Nutrition

• Secondary

Education,

• Higher

Education,

• Sports

• Entertainment

• Family

Life,

• Work

Life

• Sharing

Wisdom &

Experience

Acquiring Knowledge

Using Knowledge to

Generate Wealth &

Welfare

Health, Knowledge & Well-being

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KNOWLEDGE PROCESS

• Generation of new knowledge

• Dissemination of knowledge on a continuous basis

• Utilization of knowledge

– Health-care

– Agriculture

– Government

– Industries

– Traditional knowledge

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TRADITIONAL KNOWLEDGE

• Documentation, standardization, validation,

dissemination and utilization in

– Agriculture

– Medical and health care

– Art and culture

• Contemporary relevance

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ACCESS TO KNOWLEDGEIncrease Reach & Opportunities

• Literacy

• Affirmative action

• Knowledge delivery

– Libraries

– Networks

• National Web-based Portals

– Water, Energy, Environment, Health, Education, Citizen Rights

• Language/Translation

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KNOWLEDGE CONCEPTSAll levels and forms of education

• Elementary

• Secondary

• Vocational

• University

• Professional

• Research

• Continuous Learning

• Distance Learning

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KNOWLEDGE CREATION

Taking the lead in generating new knowledge

Science & Technology

• Innovation Workshops

• Entrepreneurship Training

• IPRs and regulatory framework

• Venture capital

• Nation-A global destination for R&D

• Creation of new institutions

• Modernization of existing institutions

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KNOWLEDGE APPLICATIONSAgriculture

• Information and Knowledge flow to farmers

• Extension services

• Supply chains

• New sources of earning

• Value addition through new technologies

• Financial services for farmers

• Storage and transport

• Value chain to the market place

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KNOWLEDGE APPLICATIONSRural Sector & SMEs

• Skill development

• Technologies

• Market access

• Inputs

• Access to credit

• Remove knowledge disparities

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KNOWLEDGE APPLICATIONSTraditional Knowledge

• Documentation, standardization, validation, dissemination and utilization in

– Agriculture

• Eg. Water harvesting

– Medical and health care

• Eg. Plant-based drugs

– Art and culture

• Eg. Folk music and rural crafts

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Kisan Call Centre – 8 States – 83 Seats

Agricultural Experts from Universities/Institutions

www.presidentofindia.nic.in

Level-1

Level-2

Level-3

Dial 1551 – Toll Free

5 Lakh Calls

From Farmers,

Fishermen

Last one year

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Sl.No Activity Knowledge Required

1. Soil Soil health (nutrition and microbes), soil testing facility

and how to improve the soil condition, the most suitable

crop for the season for the present condition of the soil.

Suitability for multi-cropping.

2. Seed Suitable variety /hybrid of a crop, source of a seed, right

price, testing of the germination.

Recommended production protocol for a particular village

and particular season by State Agricultural

Universities or District Agricultural Extension

Office.

3. Water Management Irrigation, monsoon and conservation, Harvesting

technologies, typical arrival dates of monsoon, action to

be taken by farmers in case of delays in monsoon arrival

or water arrival in irrigation canals. Participation in village

water harvesting schemes.

4. Post Harvest Management grains storage, cold storage, packaging, transport,

marketing and agro waste management.

5. Productivity increase Experience of neighboring villagers on certain

productivity increase schemes through training and

technology infusion.

6. Crop Insurance Premium to be paid, number of agencies available and

conditions of Insurance.

Typical knowledge requirements of Farmers

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Sl.No Activity Knowledge Required

7. Banking and Financial

systems

For what farming activity at what condition where the loans

are available (co-operative bank, NABARD, and other

rural banks), relative interest rates of different banks, the

need for collaterals for drawing a loan, government

policies on loan subsidy mix, interest rates, most

economic financial plan. loan waiving conditions in case of

crop failure.

8. Education Awareness of need for educating the children, schools

where they can be educated. Once they complete the

school where they can pursue higher education and

methodology of application Preparation and Entrance.

Craftsmen and vocational training centers. Entrepreneurial

training.

9. Healthcare Preventive vaccination and health care of the children and

adults, hygiene and sanitation, Government medical

support available in the Village, medical

institutions which Can be accessed in case of serious

cases. Availability of co-operative health insurance

Scheme.

10. Employment and

Entrepreneurial

opportunities

Rural development schemes for PURA, possible rural

enterprises for products which have an assured national /

international market.

Typical knowledge requirements of Farmers

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Tamilnadu

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MaharashtraBy Pravara

Medical

Trust

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MadhyaPradeshBy DRI

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NEPAL

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Profiles in CouragePakistan & India

Malik Khuda Baskh BuchaMinister of Agriculture,

Pakistan

C. SubramaniamMinister of Agriculture,

India

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Chinese Leadership

He Kang

Minister of Agriculture

1978-90

Chou En-Lai

Prime Minister

1949-76

Deng-Xiaoping

Paramount Leader

1978-89

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Sreedharan

Dr Sam Pitroda

Dr R A Mashelkar

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Visionary Political and Science Leaders

M Visweswaraiya

Jamshedji Tata

Dr A Reddy

Dr B Pathak

Dr V Kurien

A Premji

N Murthy

Vilasrao Salunkhe

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Nation

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WHEN YOU ARE INSPIRED BY SOME GREAT PURPOSE,

SOME EXTRAORDINARY PROJECT, ALL YOUR

THOUGHTS BREAK THEIR BOUNDS. YOUR MIND

TRANSCENDS LIMITATIONS, YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS

EXPANDS IN EVERY DIRECTION, AND YOU FIND

YOURSELF IN A NEW, GREAT AND WONDERFUL WORLD.

DORMANT FORCES, FACULTIES AND TALENTS COME

ALIVE, AND YOU DISCOVER YOURSELF TO BE A

GREATER PERSON BY FAR THAN YOU EVER DREAMT

YOURSELF TO BE .

Maharishi Pathanjali in Yoga Sutra (500BC)

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The basis of all

systems, social or

political, rests upon

the goodness of

men.No nation is great

or good because

parliament enacts this

or that, but its men are

great and good.

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OUR HERITAGE

1 May we see for hundred years

2 May we live for hundred years

3 May we acquire knowledge for hundred years

4 May we go prospering and progressing forhundred years

5 May we go on being nourished for hundred years

6 May we remain strong and sturdy for hundredyears

7 May we retain our prestige and influence forhundred years

8 May we retain all these powers for sight etc. forgreater number of years than hundred.”